Installing Wordpress

I have been following a program to allow me to develop Wordpress themes on my desktop.

I've been given instruction to install uniform server which I have and was asked to install wordpress files in the www folder in uniform which I've done. I configured the wp-config php file.

I was told to to to http://localhost/wordpress to install wordpress and I keep getting a 404 not found. What am I doing wrong if anything? I've gone back over my steps a half dozen times to make sure I did them correctly and could have still missed something.

Now the person's that sold the program is referring everyone to this forum that are having difficulties. I would appreciate any feedback possible to help me move forward.

Maybe the BEST thing is to be sure what we're talking about. Let's go back to basics.
404 errors happen because something doesn't exist where it's expected.

When you added wordpress, where did it go? Is it in C:\uniserver\www\wordpress\ or similar (where it should be)? Or is it somewhere else? If you have C:\uniserver\www\wordpress\wordpress\ that will get you a 404.

Secondly, you don't have to preconfigure the wp-config.php file. In fact, WordPress will do that for you. If WordPress is actually in the right place, and there isn't a wp-config.php, WordPress will prompt you with a script to create it.